SEANAN MCGUIRE lives above a swamp in the Pacific Northwest, where the sunlight is very different (and often filtered through blackberry briars). She shares her home with four large cats, an axolotl, and a remarkably large assortment of books, dolls, and My Little Ponies. Seanan is the author of several dozen books across a variety of genres, under both her own name and the name “Mira Grant.” She spends most of her time writing, which makes perfect sense, given the rest of the situation. Find her on Twitter at @seananmcguire, or at www.seananmcguire.com.
JOYCE CAROL OATES is the author most recently of the novel A Book of American Martyrs and the story collection Night-Gaunts. Her work has appeared in previous anthologies of Ellen Datlow’s, including The Doll Collection and Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales. She is a recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, the National Book Award, the PENAmerican Lifetime Achievement award, the President’s Medal of Honor, and the A.J. Liebling Award for Outstanding Boxing Writing.
BENJAMIN PERCY’S most recent novel, The Ninth Metal, releases in June 2021 with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is the author of four other novels, three story collections, and a book of essays. He currently writes Wolverine and X-Force for Marvel Comics.
Before earning her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, MARY RICKERT worked as kindergarten teacher, coffee shop barista, Disneyland balloon vendor, and personnel assistant in Sequoia National Park. She is the winner of the Locus Award, Crawford Award, World Fantasy Award, and Shirley Jackson Award. Her third short story collection, You Have Never Been Here, was published by Small Beer Press. Her novel, The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie, will be published by Undertow Press in the summer of 2021, and her novella, Lucky Girl, How I Became a Horror Writer: A Krampus Story will be published by Tor.com in the Fall of 2022.
PAUL TREMBLAY has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of Survivor Song, Growing Things, The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year’s-best anthologies. He has a master’s degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his family.
GENEVIEVE VALENTINE is the author of Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, The Girls at the Kingfisher Club, Persona, and Icon. She has written Catwoman for DC Comics. Her short stories have appeared in over a dozen Best of the Year anthologies, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy.
About the Editor
ELLEN DATLOW has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for forty years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited about one hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year series, The Doll Collection, Mad Hatters and March Hares, The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Edited By, and Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles.
She’s won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and was honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.
She lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar. More information can be found at www.datlow.com, on Facebook, and on twitter as @EllenDatlow. She’s owned by two cats.
ALSO EDITED BY ELLEN DATLOW
A Whisper of Blood
A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy
Tales (with Terri Windling)
After (with Terri Windling)
Alien Sex
Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales
Black Heart, Ivory Bones
(with Terri Windling)
Black Swan, White Raven
(with Terri Windling)
Black Thorn, White Rose
(with Terri Windling)
Blood Is Not Enough: 17 Stories of Vampirism
Blood and Other Cravings
Body Shocks
Children of Lovecraft
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror
& Fantasy
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories
Edited By
Fearful Symmetries
Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and
Other Spectacles
Haunted Legends (with Nick Mamatas)
Haunted Nights (with Lisa Morton)
Hauntings
Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the
Supernatural
Lethal Kisses
Little Deaths
Lovecraft Unbound
Lovecraft’s Monsters
Mad Hatters and March Hares
Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy
Nebula Awards Showcase 2009
Nightmare Carnival
Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror
Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex
Omni Best Science Fiction: Volumes One
through Three
The Omni Books of Science Fiction: Volumes
One through Seven
Omni Visions One and Two
Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
(with Terri Windling)
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
(with Terri Windling)
Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of
Fantasy (with Terri Windling)
Silver Birch, Blood Moon
(with Terri Windling)
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers
(with Terri Windling)
Snow White, Blood Red (with Terri Windling)
Supernatural Noir
Swan Sister (with Terri Windling)
Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat Stories
Teeth: Vampire Tales (with Terri Windling)
Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th
Anniversary Anthology
The Beastly Bride: And Other Tales of the
Animal People (with Terri Windling)
The Best Horror of the Year: Volumes One
through Thirteen
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (with Terri Windling)
The Cutting Room: Dark Reflections of the
Silver Screen
The Dark: New Ghost Stories
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and
Fantasy
The Devil and the Deep: Horror
The Doll Collection
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
(with Terri Windling)
The Monstrous
Troll’s-Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales
(with Terri Windling)
Twists of the Tale
Vanishing Acts
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror
(with Terri Windling, and with Gavin J. Grant
and Kelly Link) Volumes One
through Twenty-one
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